Health Education Center scheduled to open soon

The new Health Professions Education Center should be finished and ready to use by fall 2008. The construction of the new building started in the spring of 2007. It is 46,000 square feet and is two stories tall. Its location on campus is right next to entry six on the southwest side. The current health professions building will be renovated following the opening of the new building.
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By Jenny Bell, News Writing Student

The new Health Professions Education Center should be finished and ready to use by fall 2008.

The construction of the new building started in the spring of 2007.

It is 46,000 square feet and two stories tall. Its location on campus is right next to entry six, on the west side of the campus.

Jo Ann Cobble, Dean of Health Professions, said the center will house a division office that will house her and four other program directors.

Those are: Leaugeay Barnes, director of emergency medical sciences; Rosemary Klepper, director of nursing; Tom Kraft, occupational therapy assistant director; and Jennifer Ball, physical therapist assistant director.

There will be five new multi-purpose classrooms. Cobble said three of the rooms will be able to seat 44 students and another will be able to seat 88.

The largest of the five rooms will seat more than 160 students and will be sub-divided into two classrooms.

There also will be a computer lab located in the center.

The new center will provide classrooms and labs for EMS, OTA, and PTA programs, Cobble said. EMS is education for paramedics and the EMTs.

Cobble said the Health Professions Education Center is “state of art in terms of the labs.”

The current health professions building will be renovated to include 12 faculty offices following the opening of the new building.